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SKETCHES OF RURAL AFFAIRS. 



A traveller is sometimes inconvenienced by these sheep 

 crowding round him and following him, under the idea 

 that he has brought salt with him. 



On many of our farms the plan is now adopted of 

 putting troughs, filled with sliced turnips, in different 



TURNIP-TROUGH. 



parts of the ground where the sheep are feeding. For 

 this purpose a very useful machine, called a turnip- 

 slicer, is conveyed to the spot, some of the turnips are 



TUKNIP-SLIOER. 



pulled up, trimmed, and put into the hopper. They are 

 quickly cut in small slices, and with these the different 



